Useful Writing Tools for Online Writers

As an online writer, it's easy to find yourself procrastinating or straying away from work to waste time on other websites of lesser importance. Have you ever wished for something that would keep you in line and make sure you got all of your writing done? Well luckily, this brings us to the first writing tool.

Useful Writing Tools for Online Writers #1 - Write or Die

According to DrWicked.com, where the Write or Die tool is found, "Write or Die is a web application that encourages writing by punishing the tendency to avoid writing. Start typing in the box. As long as you keep typing, you're fine, but once you stop typing, you have a grace period of a certain number of seconds and then there are consequences."

In my own words, you basically go to the Write or Die website, input a word goal, select a grace period (which gives you less or more time before the consequences take place), a mode (which will determine how harsh the consequences are), and a time goal. Then you hit Write, and the fun begins.

The Write or Die tool will train you to get your writing done in a specific time frame without having an opportunity to stray from your work.

Useful Writing Tools for Online Writers #2 - Online Resources

Some online resources that are well known to most people but will be useful to your writing are Dictionary.com and Thesaurus.com. These websites take away the need for printed reference books because they have almost all of the printed books in their database.

An online resource that will especially be helpful for poets is Rhymer.com. Simply put, you type in a word that you wish to find rhyming words for, and a list comes up. It works great when you can't think of words that rhyme with a word you are using.

Useful Writing Tools for Online Writers #3 - Textalyser

Textalyser is an online text analysis tool that will, simply put, analyze the text of your article. All you have to do is go to the Textalyser website, input the body of your article, mess with the options and input whatever keyword or key-phrase that you would like to find the keyword density for, and then see the results.

Some of the features of the Textalyser tool include informing you of the word count (doesn't include words under a certain amount of letters, unless you change that in the options), the complexity factor, the readability, the average sentence length, the word frequency of single words and phrases up to five words (keyword density), and the frequency of word lengths.

I found these tools for online writers to be quite useful to me, so I hope they are as useful for you as they were for me.

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